Description

STOKE ON TRENT

SJ8847 ALBION SQUARE, Hanley
613-1/8/46 (South East side)
18/05/89 Municipal Offices, Courts and
Victoria Hall

GV II

Former town hall, now Municipal Offices and Courts. Originally
designed as Queen's Hotel by Robert Scrivener in 1869,
converted to a town hall in 1884-8. Red brick with white brick
and ashlar dressings, slate roofs with 4 sets of tall brick
stacks.
3-storeyed with basement and attic, 9-bay front with
projecting central and corner pavilions, these pavilions
articulated with rusticated white brick pilasters. Ground,
first, and second floor moulded bands, and bracketed
entablature.
Central doorway has projecting ashlar porch supported on
coupled, rusticated columns with carved parapet and ornate
iron lamp bracket. Either side are single sash windows, then
canted bay windows, then a single further sash, and beyond,
Palladian windows. Above a central tripartite sash window with
either side a single sash, then a canted bay window and a
further single sash, with beyond single tripartite sashes.
Above a central tripartite sash flanked by 3 sashes with
beyond a single tripartite sash. Above again, a central
2-light dormer topped by segmental pediment, flanked by 3
gabled dormers with beyond, single 2-light dormers topped by
segmental pediments.
INTERIOR has Council chamber with Victorian fixtures, and
Edwardian staircase. No.1 Courtroom is a complete mid
Victorian court with all its original fixtures and fittings,
panelling, plaster ceiling and galleries, No.3 Courtroom is an
almost complete Edwardian Court, D-plan with an ornate plaster
vault, pilasters and almost all of its original fixtures and
fittings.
To rear, and interlinking, is the Victoria Hall. Brick with
stone dressings. Facade facing on left side is in Baroque
style. 3 storeys and attic. 11-window range, with a central
5-window section breaking forward under a pediment. High base,
brick pilasters with channelled rustication and modillion
cornice. 2nd floor windows have round-arched heads. Entrances
have moulded stone doorcases. Right side (rear of whole
complex) is an 11-window range with round-arched windows to
2nd floor and small octagonal lantern on roof. INTERIOR of
hall not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ8834947340

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Victoria Hall, Hanley at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q16902639

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